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Last updated 17 July 2026

Terms of service

By using Paper Grinder you agree to these terms. They are a contract between you and Paper Grinder (operated in the United Kingdom).

01The service

Paper Grinder is a personal examiner. You give it your subjects, target grades, and exam dates; it builds practice sessions, marks your answers against real mark schemes, and tracks your progress. We do not generate questions: we use real past-paper questions from Cambridge (CAIE).

02Your account

  • You must be at least 16 years old to create an account without parental consent.
  • You're responsible for keeping your login credentials safe.
  • You agree the information you provide (subjects, target grades) is accurate.
  • One account per person. Don't share accounts.

03Passes and payment

  • Free includes five marked reps and ten explainers per day. A pass removes both daily limits and adds the predicted grade range. Marking against the official scheme, photo marking, loss diagnosis, session debriefs, and the Record are included with or without an active pass.
  • Passes are paid for once via Stripe. Prices shown on the pricing page are final and include any applicable taxes.
  • A pass grants access for a fixed number of days from purchase and does not renew. There is no subscription and nothing to cancel. Buying another pass while one is already active extends your access instead of starting a second charge.
  • UK/EU consumers have a 14-day cooling-off period from each pass purchase. If you request a refund within 14 days and have not used pass features, we refund the charge in full. If you have used pass features, we refund a pro-rata amount. Either way, the refund revokes the remaining time on that pass. Email hello@papergrinder.com to request a refund.

04Acceptable use

Don't use Paper Grinder to:

  • Submit answers to an assessment you're sitting live (cheat).
  • Scrape, copy, or redistribute our marking prompts, mark-scheme annotations, or generated analysis.
  • Abuse the service to harass, impersonate, or harm other users.
  • Reverse-engineer the marking or planning algorithms.
  • Upload content that isn't yours or that infringes someone else's rights.

Breaking these rules can lead to us suspending or terminating your account without refund.

05AI marking: what it can and cannot do

Marking is produced by a large language model (Google's Gemini). We tune prompts, inject the official mark scheme where one is available, and enforce a structured output format, but the output is not infallible. Use it as a practice signal, not as an official mark. We are not responsible for differences between our marking and the marks you receive from an exam board.

06Our content

Question and mark-scheme images are the property of Cambridge (CAIE) and their respective owners. Paper Grinder is an independent study tool and is not affiliated with, authorised by, or endorsed by Cambridge International Education. If you are a rights holder and want material reviewed or removed, email hello@papergrinder.com and we will respond promptly. Our generated output (observations, plans, explanations, prompt tuning) is ours; you may use it for your own study but not redistribute it.

Your submissions (attempts, answers, photos) remain yours. You grant us the licence we need to run the service: store them, mark them, and show them back to you.

07Account deletion and data

You can delete your account and download all your data any time from Settings (Settings → Delete your account; Settings → Download my data). Deletion ends any remaining time on an active pass and removes your study data. You can also email hello@papergrinder.com. See the privacy policy for retention details.

08Disclaimer and liability

The service is provided "as is." We don't guarantee uninterrupted availability, accurate marking in every case, or specific exam outcomes. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all warranties, conditions, and other terms that would otherwise be implied, and we limit our liability to what is lawfully excludable. Nothing in these terms restricts liability that cannot be lawfully restricted, including death or personal injury caused by our negligence, fraud, or any rights you have under the UK Consumer Rights Act 2015 or equivalent consumer-protection legislation in your country of residence.

09Changes to these terms

We may update these terms to reflect product changes or legal requirements. Material changes are announced by email at least 14 days before they take effect. Continued use after that counts as acceptance.

10Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales. Claims arising from these terms will be heard in the courts of England and Wales, except that EU and EEA consumers retain the right to bring proceedings in the courts of their country of residence where mandatory local consumer-protection law so requires, and mandatory consumer-protection rules of your country of residence continue to apply regardless of this clause.

11Contact

Paper Grinder

Grind real Cambridge past papers, marked point by point against the official scheme.

Paper Grinder is an independent study tool. It is not affiliated with, authorised by, or endorsed by Cambridge International Education, whose past papers and mark schemes remain the property of their owners, and it responds promptly to rights-holder requests.

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